Date: 1740
"My Mind, my Mind is a Kingdom to me!"
preview | full record— Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)
Date: 1738, 1742
"Ye Princes by destructive Passions led / Who mount without a Blush th'adult'rous Bed / Who hear your Subjects all around complain / Of Wrongs, repeated Wrongs, on Land and Main, / While all your Counsels are yourselves to please, / And while ye batten in inglorious Ease, / 'Tis Virtue only can...
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1738, 1742
"In doing these ye act the princely Part, / And build your Empires in the People's Heart."
preview | full record— Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Date: 1745
"Minerva sudden from his Soul was fled, / And Venus reign'd successive in her stead."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)
Date: 1745
"Anger's a short-liv'd Madness, and with Sway, / Rules Sovereign if not tutor'd to obey"
preview | full record— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)